Re: Exim .forward file - how do I pipe a message?

["Sven Burgener" <svenb@bluewin.ch>]

Hi {Philip,list}

>"Set up your mail system (.forward, .qmail, /etc/aliases or
> whatever) to pipe each incoming message to snmail, with the
> command line similar to:
> BINDIR/snmail -s mailing-list local.

What you should do then is (if you run sendmail, that is), put the
following in your ~/.forward: (with the quotes)
"|snmail -s mailing-list local."

Make sure that "snmail" is findable, eg. in the $PATH variable.

>On the Exim web site it mentions 'pipe' but I can't get it working.
>Basically I need to use my debian-user filter and pipe messages
matching
>the filter to snmail.

The "pipe" above is the character "|" as it has always been on UNIX.

HTH
Sven